#garfield Logs

Nov 29 2013

00:38 rue_house would you like to help me go thru the data?
00:39 rue_house hmm 5x7, I wonder if I can use 35 character filenames
00:39 rue_house the filenames would take up more than the images
00:40 rue_house so I need a base 10 to base,... 34 converter?
00:49 rue_house hahah, 2 seconds of running made so many images, the viewer locked up
00:52 rue_house haha 145000+ images in 2 seconds
00:54 rue_house hahah the hard drive cant keep up
00:58 rue_house kat, would you split 2 million images with me to look thru?
01:11 rue_house file 612021 is the letters VI
03:20 Tom_itx pepsi wrote an avr floppy once
08:59 rue_house oh, what did he use for storage?
09:04 tsmeow-afk drops in on her way
09:05 katsmeow-afk [00:38] <rue_house> hahah the hard drive cant keep up <<== huge issue here too, especially when you consider the drive may be across the lan and accessing it ties up *2* computers
09:08 rue_house its a local drive, but its also software raid mirror
09:09 rue_house 34 billion images in total...
09:09 tsmeow-afk just crashe
09:10 rue_house you enguaged its memory managment
09:10 katsmeow-afk shirt, i gotta go to town and spend money i don't have :-/
09:10 rue_house damnit, the tank sensor is having bit errors again
12:17 katsmeow-afk hmm, walmart.com seems to be down
12:40 katsmeow-afk is this a good deal? ==>> http://www.walmart.com/ip/Dell-B1160W-Laser-Printer/21707745
12:40 katsmeow-afk toner refills for it are 1/2 the $$ of a Samsung
16:58 katsmeow-afk November 27, 2013
16:58 katsmeow-afk Innovators: Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson
16:58 katsmeow-afk Ages: 39 and 42
16:58 katsmeow-afk Titles: Co-founders of Technical Illusions, a startup in Woodinville, Wash.
16:58 katsmeow-afk Form and function: Technical Illusions has developed castAR, a pair of high-tech glasses that project 3D hologramlike images, and a "magic wand" that can be used to interact with the holographic projections to enliven gaming and teaching.
17:00 katsmeow-afk http://technicalillusions.com/
18:39 katsmeow-afk ...
19:14 katsmeow-afk i seem to be in here, and seems no one else is
21:28 rue_shop2 where is no one else?
21:29 rue_shop2 did I miss them?
21:29 katsmeow-afk yeas
21:30 rue_shop2 damn
21:30 Tom_itx about to enter uncharted territory
21:30 rue_shop2 the shop is warm but I have no idea if its from the floor heating or now
21:30 rue_shop2 not
21:30 rue_shop2 Tom_itx, throw the switch!
21:30 rue_shop2 NOT AT _ME_!
21:31 tsmeow-afk d
21:31 e_shop2 par
21:33 katsmeow-afk well, one way to filter out postcards and coffee mugs: specify the length
21:34 rue_shop2 length? coffee mugs last much longer than post cards
21:35 katsmeow-afk then yu see how it works
21:38 katsmeow-afk you know i no longer have the lil boat i built from hot water heaters...... today i got a 16ft pontoon boat for $180, some work required : http://designerthinking.com/boatstuff.html
21:40 katsmeow-afk that's under 10% of an ebay boat
21:46 rue_shop2 gee, ebay boats are big
21:47 rue_shop2 16ft = .095 * ebay_boat
21:47 rue_shop2 168 feet! wow, ebay boats are big
21:47 katsmeow-afk there's some shorte
21:47 katsmeow-afk r
21:48 rue_shop2 at work they want a raft
21:48 rue_shop2 for moving solar battery arrays to islands
21:49 rue_shop2 moving 1200lbs of batteries to an island in 4 trips is kinda wearing
21:49 katsmeow-afk a 24ft pontoon boat might carry all 4800 lbs
21:49 katsmeow-afk [17:02] <katsmeow-afk> studying the design of the aluminum hulls, if i replicate in 1/16 (14 gauge) steel to same money, a 16ft hull will weight 300lbs and displace 3000lbs fully submerged
21:49 katsmeow-afk [17:03] <katsmeow-afk> err, to SAVE money
21:49 katsmeow-afk [17:05] <katsmeow-afk> use 3 8ft hulls on each side of a deck, you could tow any car you have on it (9000 lbs)
21:50 rue_shop2 "By 'know more' we thought he wanted to learn more, after 3 years it was discovered he meant 'no more'"
21:50 rue_shop2 I'm learing how speach works kat!
21:51 katsmeow-afk 3 yrs is a lot of learning
21:52 katsmeow-afk in "battle for planet earth", the alien learning machine could teach you calculus and a new language in 5 minutes
21:53 katsmeow-afk in comparison, the same machine on the earth colony witht he physhiatric unit would make you a vegitable in 15 minutes
21:53 katsmeow-afk on star trek, old series
21:56 Tom_itx some reason the driver isn't loading
21:56 tsmeow-afk looks clueless because the conversating is happening in other chan
21:59 Tom_itx no
22:22 katsmeow-afk ...
22:23 Tom_itx unless you're good with xilinx and making hostmot2 bitfiles....
22:23 Tom_itx http://tom-itx.dyndns.org:81/~webpage/cnc/configs/sherline/bitfiles/
22:23 Tom_itx there's the .vhd file
22:24 Tom_itx the sserial module is what i've added to it
22:24 katsmeow-afk i am intrigued by xilinix, but never knew/watched anyone using them
22:25 katsmeow-afk i am a bit shy of them because of my first two expereinces with them, in the olden daze when they were PLAs, the one in the C64 is glitchy as hell
22:25 Tom_itx well i'm completely new to these
22:25 Tom_itx the cards work excellent
22:26 Tom_itx i'm in uncharted territory here
22:26 Tom_itx most of the cards using sserial are newer pci cards
22:26 Tom_itx but they said they saw no reason it wouldn't work on this pair
22:27 Tom_itx he'll walk me through it i'm sure, just not around right now
22:27 katsmeow-afk oh
22:28 tsmeow-afk is doing dain bread brute force work : filing square h
22:28 Tom_itx i'm not sure anyone has done this before though
22:28 Tom_itx this combination of boards
22:29 tsmeow-afk
22:40 e_shop2
22:41 m_itx nods and feels like a bobble
22:44 rue_shop2 why do I never make any motor drivers I like
22:49 tsmeow-afk cusses that one panel is .035 narrower because she made it freehand without a
22:53 Tom_itx i think i'll try recompiling this just for practice
22:53 Tom_itx i wonder if i can make it through all the steps
23:03 rue_shop2 STA302a, wish I had more of those!
23:04 Tom_itx synthesizing...
23:04 Tom_itx that's a good sign..
23:36 rue_shop2 V = IR, so if I is 2 and R is 0.5
23:37 rue_shop2 V is 1
23:37 katsmeow-afk ok
23:38 rue_shop2 annoying, I need a 10V reference voltage
23:39 tsmeow-afk notes everything the monogramming shop sells weighs way more than one
23:39 rue_shop2 hmm
23:39 katsmeow-afk so use a 2k R and .050 I
23:39 Tom_itx crap. i wonder if the encoders are interfering with the sserial
23:40 rue_shop2 we have a place called dolphin fitness that moved from dolphin street to mermaid street
23:40 katsmeow-afk err,, .005 I
23:40 rue_shop2 A3952 driver, working out what to do with all the pins
23:40 katsmeow-afk bandsaw
23:41 rue_shop2 mode goes high, enable gets pwm, phase is dir, brake goes high
23:41 katsmeow-afk tra la la , la la lala
23:41 rue_shop2 ref needs 10V, rc gets a 25k/820pf rc, and sense gets 0.5R to ground
23:41 rue_shop2 0.5R to ground, on a veroboard....
23:42 rue_shop2 meh...
23:42 katsmeow-afk take any stable voltage, and apply gain with an opamp to make it be 10v ?
23:42 rue_shop2 oh
23:42 katsmeow-afk stack up two 78L05 ?
23:43 rue_shop2 good idea, I can use the 5V and make a ... 78L05 on top of it!
23:43 katsmeow-afk use a ,,, what is it... LM350?
23:43 rue_shop2 :) thanks kat!
23:43 katsmeow-afk ok
23:43 katsmeow-afk <curtsey>
23:43 rue_shop2 I wonder if I have any positive adjustable in small
23:43 katsmeow-afk yu can adjust the 78L05 up to 10
23:43 rue_shop2 I was thinking a current mirror some kind that could double the 5 from the 12, but I like your ideas better
23:43 katsmeow-afk couple R is all you need
23:44 rue_shop2 if the ground of the 05 is AT 5 ;)
23:44 rue_shop2 I have a 5V supply anyhow
23:45 katsmeow-afk non, tie the 78Lo5 to two 1k R, tie other ends of the R , one to the 78L05 output, the other to gnd, the output will read 10v
23:45 rue_shop2 ok, this plan is workable
23:45 rue_shop2 ah, good point
23:45 rue_shop2 I need input and output lugs
23:45 katsmeow-afk you can use higher valuse, just make them the same
23:45 rue_shop2 .5R
23:45 rue_shop2 green brown silver?
23:45 tsmeow-afk files up a s
23:46 rue_shop2 or gold
23:46 rue_shop2 gold, I think its gold
23:46 katsmeow-afk erg
23:46 katsmeow-afk i have some behind me
23:47 katsmeow-afk no colors
23:48 katsmeow-afk ok, the .1 @ 5% is brown-black-silver-gold
23:49 katsmeow-afk so .5 is green-brown-silver
23:50 rue_shop2 but isn't .01 brown black silver?
23:51 rue_shop2 ok I'm out by 10
23:52 katsmeow-afk need a pic?